On the 15th of each month I participate in a gardening blog hop called Garden Bloggers Bloom Day where garden bloggers all over the world share what is currently blooming in their garden.
So what’s blooming in Piglet’s plot?
The temperatures here in the Western Algarve have not dipped below 3C at night and have hovered well over 12C during the day. In fact last night it was 18C. We’ve had lots of rain as well as sunshine so the perfect combination for hungry mosquitos as well as a variety of plants.
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I love the idea of a garden bloggers’ bloom day! Your poinsettia is lovely. We used to have them in our garden in North Queensland in Australia in the winter (July & August), but I have to buy them in pots in France, but I always get one at Christmas.
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Hi Aussie and welcome! Why don’t you join in?
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You have some lovely blooms in your garden PiP! The one with no name (5th one down) is an agave; they are very striking, and grow really big. They grow ‘babies’ from the stems which can be broken off and cultivated to make more!
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We have the most amazing gazanias in flower in the moment. I took photos to share on my blog but have yet to put them on. Do you have to have a garden blog to join the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day? I guess you would do by the name itself, but it is a lovely idea. 🙂
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Hi tosta, I don’t think you have to have a totally garden blog, well mines not. I just joined in…it’s only for fun 🙂
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Hibiscus is always my favorite and yours is gorgeous! And that no-name plant…kind of looks like it’s praying. Divine! xoxoM
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Hi Margarita I finally have a name for noname
Agave attenuata
I’ve taken loads of Hibiscus cuttings from a variety of different types so hopefully next yearI will have a lot more colour variations
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no name is my favourite…. agave attenuata… I hope to get one for our garden in Croatia, will come back and may join in this gardening posting PiP ! 🙂
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Gorgeous .- and you have a poinsettia, how wonderful!
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Hi Chica…it is about 6yrs old now and can be rather temperamental. Once when it dropped all its leaves I cut all the branches off, stuck it in the corner of the garden and tole it that it had two chances…and it grew like mad….
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I have a hibiscus still flowering in my small garden, although there have been unusually cold temperatures at night. Your garden photos are lovely!
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Hi 24/7 gardening here is a pleasure. Where we are we rarely get frosts and tonight the temp is 18C again.
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How wonderful to still have plants flowering. I have a couple of French marigolds hanging on, but that’s all 😦 Winter’s here …
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Hi steph it was only when I started the bloggers bloom day blog hop that I realsied how many flowers there are n bloom this time of year!
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Your flowers are looking beautiful. The no name one is an Agave attenuata. I have a few in my garden too, they are beautiful. And I have loads of money plants, don´t know where the money has gone though…
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Hi Sami, thanks for Christening the no name. We now have lots of these in our garden as they produce lots of babies 🙂 I grow lots of money plants and I live in hope….
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Love the blooms . . . especially the No Name Favorite and the Poinsettia. Thanks, PiP.
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We are lucky to ahve so many plants in bloom here during December. NEver noticed it before until I joined bloggers bloom day.
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Your part of Portugal and my part of Down Under are bosom buddies as far as temps go in winter. Simply cannot believe that hibiscus tho’ – can’t get them to stay alive thru’ our occasional minus days: lucky duck you 🙂 ! And those strawberry blossoms: hope they bear fruit!! On the other hand: had my first four small tomatoes of the season today: oh my, had forgotten the depth of flavour after all those bought at the supermarket!!!!
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I’m jealous…no tomatoes here! PErhaps I out to construct a mini green house to protect them for when we do have cold nights. My hibiscus all grow close to the house in pots so are protected if the temperatures suddenly drop. We may ahve temps of 17-18C at night this week but next it could go down to 3C
there’s nothing like home gron toms for taste… 🙂
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my strawberry towers are going on… I will build more…
you will eat that at reveillon…
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Hi Milton,
I’ve not tried growing in towers…just a mxture of containers. What is reveillon?
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Here in upstate New York, we must wait until spring for outdoor blooms. I love seeing flowers from “the other side of the world” – it helps to keep me patient while I count the days until the crocuses start to break ground. Your blooms are lovely, not at all what one would find growing in my area outdoors Glad to find another NaNoWriMo participating in GBBD!
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Hi Alana and welcome 🙂 I can’t imagine not haveing some flowers throughout the eyar…
Loved NaNoWriMo it was great fun and it taught me to discipline myself on Time management. If you are doing it next year we should become buddies!
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Blooming and December do not occur together here. Unless you count the geraniums in my window–inside the house. or the mold in my refrigerator. Your garden is a delight!
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thanks Alice… 🙂
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I enjoy dropping by and gazing at pictures of your garden. Your favorite nameless plant is gorgeous. And I share you love of gazanias.
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Hi Laura,
gazanias and hibiscus are my favourite flowers. they give blooms all the year round!
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What beautiful flowers and nice temperatures!!!
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´Hi didi, the temps here are OK at the moment, but the downside is the high humidity and salt air. As we say even paradise has mosquitos 🙂
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ouch mosquitos! Yuck! Here is about 9° and raining.
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